Passport stamps.

[Macka]

Personally I love having the stamp in my passport. I can look back through it and be reminded of the places we've been.

I mourn the demise of my old black passport with the U.S. Visa in it. If no-ones seen one it was a stamp nearly the whole size of the page and it was in a few colours. It had my first ever visit to the U.S. in it and stamps from loads of other countries.

I seem to remember that you used to be able to request that the pages from your old passport could be put into your new one, has anyone heard of this?

Incidentally, I once met an English guy on a remote railway station in Spain or France, can't remember which, he was the most travelled man I ever met. He had a 100 page old style passport, which was filled with stamps, almost every page, we sat for about 2 hours looking thropugh it and he had a cool story about every stamp we looked at.

I still have my old passport with the corner cut off but it's not the same.

Geek alert.[msneek]

Anyone know if you can transfer pages?

[wilfy]

Literaly just renewed my passport last week. (sent of tuesday, returned by courier on Saturday). My old passport turned up a couple of days later, which i really wanted as it has my US visa valid for another 2 years. I didn't think they transfer pages, as that would spoil their automated system.

[emm]

Macka, many years ago when it was still the old-style passports, I had to have mine renewed. As I had a current visa (USA, mulitple indefinite) and residence permit (I was living abroad, but not in the US, at the time)in my passport, the old one was attached (with a rather fetching red ribbon!) to my new one. When the time came to renew my passport again, I was no longer living abroad, and the visa waiver for the US had been introduced, so I was told that there was no need for me to have my old passports attached to my new one. I then received the new style passport. [msnsad]

I haven't heard that you can request to have pages transferred from old passports, but perhaps similar situations to the one I was in might mean it would be necessary.

Macka, I still have all my old passports, I had the indefinite vistors visa and a work one too, they took up 2 whole pages[msnwink]

[Macka]

YesI've got my old ones too, just can't stand to throw them away.

Julie, your old passports must be like encycopaedia britt...Encyclopee ...bryt...brty.

Collins english Dictionary.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Macka
YesI've got my old ones too, just can't stand to throw them away.

Julie, your old passports must be like encycopaedia britt...Encyclopee ...bryt...brty.

Collins english Dictionary.
[/quote]

Well I had the ones with the most pages (50 I think?) and they are both full[msnwink]

[McjohnjM]

Got to agree with you Macka, I use to love all the stamps in my old passport, they don't seem to stamp them anymore. I can remember years ago when we went on a cruise and I asked for my passport to be stamped at every port, now thats a geek. I have one good one in my new passport and that is a visa we needed when we went to Egypt, almost as good as the US but not quite as colourful.

Kim

[Macka]

No Kim, not geeky at all that, I always ask for a stamp if they don't give one.

I wonder if the US Embassy would give you another Visa Stamp if you asked? And doesn't having the indefinite Visa save you having to fill in one of the entry forms at immigration?

[Genie]

The stamps are lovely and I too have my old passport, it's the horrible little sticky bits that are now all over the cover of it that I hate. I tried putting the passport in a holder but they just take it out, you can't win !!!

[blott]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Macka
No Kim, not geeky at all that, I always ask for a stamp if they don't give one.

I wonder if the US Embassy would give you another Visa Stamp if you asked? And doesn't having the indefinite Visa save you having to fill in one of the entry forms at immigration?[/quote]Hate to have to tell you this but there are no longer indefinite visas available and the original ones are no longer valid. The US changed this when the visa waiver was introduced and visitors' visas (after an Embassy interview for those aged between 14 and 80) are now only issued for a maximum of ten years.